Sale Gone Wrong
I am a firefighter. A couple of years ago, I’m backstep on an Engine company working on one of the nights of our tour. The tone goes off and dispatch frantically dispatches my Engine and one of our ambulances to a gunshot victim. We arrive on scene right behind the ambulance only to find a male in his late teens laying unresponsive on the ground with an entry wound in his chin.
No respirations, no pulse. We begin CPR. As we cut all of his clothes off, we discovered that he’d been shot in the lower abdomen and also the chest. So, as we later uncovered, the story was that he’d responded to a Craigslist ad from a guy selling headphones. Our victim had been responding to ads on Craigslist, meeting people in quiet areas, and then robbing them at gunpoint.
He’d also just recently gotten out of jail. Well, the guy selling the headphones was a bit suspicious of the meeting place and asked his friend, who happens to be a county Corrections Officer, to come along. When the victim arrived, he pulled a gun on them, and the CO opened up the passenger door to use as cover, drew his sidearm (which he is allowed to carry off-duty), and discharged three rounds in a “zipper” fashion upwards into the victim.
Our ambulance transported the guy, but he didn’t make it. My buddy, who is now a county Corrections Officer also, told me that the guy who shot the victim had been out on stress leave, and is possibly leaving the profession. Yes, it all went terribly wrong.